The United States again vetoed a draft UN Security Council resolution demanding a ceasefire in Gaza, the release of hostages, and the lifting of restrictions on humanitarian aid.
Simon Chege Ndiritu
The United States was the only country to oppose the resolution. All other Security Council members, including permanent members Russia, China, the United Kingdom, and France, supported the resolution.
The UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) report from 16 September 2025 revealed that Israel has committed Genocide in Gaza, despite the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ordering Israel to stop the ethnic cleansing on 26 January 2024. The US proceeded to veto a draft UN Security Council (UNSC) resolution calling for a ceasefire just two days later, which exposes the ineffectiveness of the UN and highlights the need for a fair global security architecture.
The UN has, over decades, tried to act as representing the voice of the global majority, but is, in a real sense, designed to numb the world’s majority
Orders and Reports from UN agencies
An ICJ order and a UNHRC report have so far proven inadequate in stopping Israel’s carnage in Gaza or in swaying the US to approve a draft UNSC resolution calling for a ceasefire for the 6th time. The UN emerges as being ineffective while the US is willing to pursue its interests at the cost of thousands of human lives, meaning the world can only watch as Israel and its backers eradicate a people in the 21st century if an alternative approach is not pursued. Remarkably, Washington’s deputy special envoy for the Middle East explained that her country shot down the draft resolution because it did not adequately recognize Israel’s right to defend itself. However, the envoy could not state what Israel was defending itself against by conducting different massacres against Palestine since 1948 or holding 1319 Palestinians hostage by October 1, 2023. The aforementioned UNHRC report revealed that the UN agency had conducted a legal analysis of Israel’s conduct vis-à-vis the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, but this scrutiny appears to have been conducted at a leisurely pace, as it was concluded over 19 months after the ICJ -regarded as the UN’s own court- issued an order requiring Israel to halt actions constituting genocide on January 26, 2024, in the following excerpts;
(4) The State of Israel shall, in accordance with its obligations under the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, in relation to the Palestinian people as a group protected by the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, desist from the commission of any and all acts within the scope of Article II of the Convention, in particular:
(a) killing members of the group;
(b) causing serious bodily or mental harm to the members of the group;
(c) deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; and
(d) imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group.
With one UN body, the ICJ, having established that Israel was conducting genocide, another one, the UNHRC, took over 19 months to conduct a legal review of Israel’s actions, and the findings are unlikely to stop the bloodbath. Had there been an effective mechanism of enforcing the orders of the ICJ in January 2024 when Israel had killed 25,700 Gazans, over 35,000 lives would have been saved, noting that the UNHRC report revealed that 60,199 Gazans had been killed by 31st July 2025. In short, the UN keeps talking while Israel keeps killing and gaining territories, even amidst the ongoing push to control Gaza City, which claims lives every day. The overlapping decisions of UN agencies create loopholes that have allowed the US and Western Europe to continue arming and supporting Israel while it conducts genocide in the 21st century. The West has allowed Israel to transgress on Palestinians’ human rights at will.
There were 1319 Palestinian Hostages in Israel by October 1, 2023
According to Amnesty International, there were Palestinian hostages in Israeli prisons before Hamas attacks on Israel, an event that the Jewish state and its backers cite as a justification for genocide. The Palestinian victims were arrested violently in the West Bank and were held without trial under Israel’s so-called administrative detention, in which torture occurred, but no Western government took any action to demand their human rights. However, these Western governments now arm Israel and support its raids, supposedly to recover Israeli hostages in Gaza, without lifting a finger to rescue numerous Palestinian hostages being tortured in Israeli prisons. Thus, the US and European governments backing Israel do not regard Palestinians as deserving rights to life, freedom, and fair trial, among others.
One day, backers of Israel, the US, the UK, Germany, and France will confront the reality of explaining to the world why they felt that aiding Israel to genocide the Gazans to free 251 Israeli hostages was acceptable, but forcing Israel to free over 1300 Palestinian hostages held in Israel was not. The West will also confront why they allowed the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to reject every ceasefire offer while bombing negotiators to continue genocide, which will expose the group as barbaric entities unfit to deal with the rest of the world in economic and diplomatic relations. Factors then will reveal their racist belief that leads them behind their colonial outposts to kill tens to hundreds of thousands of natives in the name of freeing hostages, while allowing their settler colony to hold, torture, and kill natives. Then, it will be impossible to absolve the UN of being an accessory to the West’s transgressions, as the body that rapidly passed resolutions to ravage countries such as Iraq under false pretexts has repeatedly declined to shield Palestinians from genocide.
UN in a Colonial Model
UNHRC’s decision, following the ICJ’s orders, reveals a cold strategy to shift the guilt of Gaza’s genocide to the global majority. The UN has, over decades, tried to act as representing the voice of the global majority, but is, in a real sense, designed to numb the world’s majority. The ICJ’s and UNHRC’s findings are calculated to make the majority seeking justice feel like they have done enough and leave Israel and its backers to continue conducting genocide-it should be noted that Israel’s backers were drivers of colonialism and genocides over centuries. The script is similar to how the British would include the Irish in their kingdom to make it appear like the oppressed were somehow a party to decisions meant to eradicate them. For instance, the British, under the Act of Union 1801, pushed policies from London to hoard food for the English population and livestock, causing the famine of 1845-1852 in Ireland. The same British government would proceed to form purported mechanisms of representation for natives in its colonies, for instance, in Kenya, but its policies always originated from London, with the local structures existing only to bear the blame. The UN has been fashioned in the same manner, in which the global majority is given an illusion of having some say, while Western countries disregard it (the UN) and act with impunity. This model cannot work forever, noting that the Irish and other British colonies are no longer under colonial control. The purposefully dysfunctional model of the UN, as maintained by the Western colonial powers, can only last for so long if not reformed.
Simon Chege Ndiritu is a political observer and research analyst from Africa
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